On Friday, Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti named longtime advisor Rich Llewellyn to oversee his transition team. According to the LA Times, he’ll help “identify hundreds of people who will work in his office and serve as political appointees.” The big question in education circles is whether Garcetti will have an education team like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa before him,...

In a memo sent out to district senior leadership and posted on the LAUSD website, Superintendent John Deasy laid out his vision for the next three years. Looking it over, it doesn’t take long to realize that Deasy’s priorities aren’t in line with those of some of his Board members. A resolution by Board members...

There are two interesting opinion pieces on the parent trigger in the LA Times  — both focused on the aftermath of the parent trigger petition at Weigand Elementary but coming at the issue from different points of view: One of the two highlights the laudable desire to make sure that teachers and parents are fully...

The Daily News‘ Barbara Jones casts the two resolutions scheduled to be introduced at tomorrow’s special budget-focused Board meeting as two “conflicting options” for how to spend future revenue from Proposition 30, the temporary tax hike passed by California voters in November. One resolution, sponsored by Board members Steve Zimmer, Bennett Kayser and Dr. Richard...

In a new KNX 1070 NEWSRADIOinterview, Board member-elect Monica Ratliff expresses some of her own ideas about what should get funded and expanded in LAUSD in upcoming years, including vocational education: “One of the areas to which Ratliff plans to bring renewed focus is vocational education, which involves training students for technical occupations and preparing them...